During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.
Huey NewtonI had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.
Huey NewtonThe rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.
Huey NewtonThe reactionary suicide is โwise,โ and the revolutionary suicide is a โfool,โ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a โfool for Christ,โ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.
Huey Newton